More than 4,000 lives lost to COVID in U.S. in a single day, exceeding death toll from 9/11 attacks
January 08, 2021 at 11:04 AM EST
The U.S. set yet another record for the number of fatalities from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 and recorded the highest number of new cases since the start of the outbreak, with the latest numbers exceeding even the worst case scenario forecasts of health experts.